The Massassi Temple was started by Brian Lozier (that's who's writing this, so from now
on, I'll be typing in the first person perspective) on March 27, 1998. At the time, I was
struggling with Jed, trying to make an outdoors type level. The only help available were a
few tutorials over at Darkness
Falls, and the message board over at The
Code Alliance (Darkjedi.com).

As I said, I was really struggling, I couldn't grasp the concept of negative space. My
first level (unreleased) had a bunch of sectors inside sectors (which won't work). Anyway,
a really good guy, GMS_Slug came along, answered all my questions, and basically walked
me through creating a building.

After a while, I noticed that people were asking the same questions over and over on the
forums. I had recently learned some html (just before I got JK, as a matter of fact), and
decided to write a few tutorials. Rather than just releasing a zipped tutorial, however, I
got this grand idea to start an editing site. I wrote up my first tutorials (which can still
be found in the tutorials section) about creating outdoor type buildings, created a main
page, uploaded it to my ISP, and went off to find some hosting.

The Massassi Temple was what I chose as a name because of the significance the Massassi
Temple's had in the Star Wars movies and novels. Basically, the Massassi were a race that
were eventually enslaved by a Sith called Exar Kun. By the time of the first movie, the
race had long been extinct, but their temples were used as a rebel base (you know, the one
the deathstar almost took out). Later on, Luke Skywalker started a Jedi Academy in the temples
to instruct people in the ways of the force. Since the main idea was to teach people how to
create levels/mods, I figured the name was fitting (plus, just about every other Star Wars
name was taken by other sites).

First, I applied over at JediKnight.net,
but they felt we didn't have enough content yet, so turned us down. Not to be dissuaded, I
went to Spart over at Jedi Nights. I
received a response the same day, and had my account set up within a few hours. We were with
Jedi Nights for well over a year.

Eventually, we got our own forum, recruited some more help, and the ball got rolling.
Newer and better editors and utilities were released, and mods started getting better and
better. One day, I got this idea that we should be a place where editors can not only learn
to create levels, but also a place where they can distribute them.

With the success of our new levels section, we thought that Massassi should no longer be
a place for editors only, but a place for anyone who played the game (and future shooters,
as a matter of fact), so we expanded into Jedi Knight news.

What you see now is the product of a lot of hard work contributed by a lot of very
dedicated and talented people. We have gone through a couple of re-designs, but have
settled on a design that is very similar to our original design, with a little bit of new
artwork and a different font. A new design isn't in the plans until Obi-Wan comes out.

That's pretty much the story, we outgrew Jedi Nights and are now at our own server, hosting
sites and generally staying excited about all things new in the Star Wars gaming, and specifically,
first person shooter, scene.

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